TV Guy: 2 new shows aren't for the squeamish

If you can imagine "Reservoir Dogs"-level violence employed in an hourlong sitcom, then perhaps you're ready for "Happy!" (10 p.m., Syfy, TV-MA).

Not to give too much away, but the show opens with miserable hit man Nick Sax (Christopher Meloni) staring in the mirror of the men's room of a dive bar.

Then he takes a revolver and blows his head off. But instead of dying, he dances around for an excruciating period with a torrent of blood rushing out of the top of his head and throbbing to dance music.

Then he's back to staring at himself in the mirror. Maybe this was a hallucination. Or maybe he can't be killed. Or something.

From there we go to a tale of a sick child molester dressed as a Santa who kidnaps kids from Christmas pageants and keeps them in crates.

A bloodbath shootout follows that should have killed Nick, but instead sends him to the hospital, where he's pursued by a sadist torturer and bad cop (Lili Mirojnick).

Then finally there's Happy (the voice of Patton Oswalt), a goofy, animated flying blue unicorn that just may be the guardian angel (or something) for one of the kidnapped children.

In between geysers of blood, Happy keeps flying Tinker Bell-like after Nick, trying to keep him focused on saving the girl. This is all supposed to be funny. Or something.

- For more gore, don't miss "Knightfall" (10 p.m., History, TV-14), a new 10-part historical epic about the Knights Templar, the medieval military order associated with the Crusades and the search for the Holy Grail.

"Knightfall" is clearly a complement to "Vikings" and very rich in hacking, whacking, swordplay and blunt-force trauma. Look for Jim Carter (Mr. Carson from "Downton Abbey") as Pope Boniface VIII.

"Secrets" pulls from more than 40 hours of archival footage and draws upon Fossey's letters and interviews to recall her 18 years in the jungles of Rwanda studying and protecting mountain gorillas, a mission that probably cost Fossey her life. She was found brutally murdered in 1985.

- Hulu begins streaming the 10-episode second season of "Shut Eye," set among con artists and psychics.